Continuing work on Iain Crichton Smith’s ‘Home’.

This week, the Higher class has been exploring all the literary techniques they should know based on their previous learning. They have put this together in a table – an answer scheme to which can be found below.

Literary technique 2018-19

Both the Higher and National 5 classes explored the repression of Scots language within the story and what it showed about the main character’s identity. Here is one of many excellent creative demonstrations of this:

Both the Highers and National 5s explored symbolism within the story ‘Home’ by Iain Crichton Smith. The symbols the classes found examples of and explained the significance of were:

• The car
• The people the characters remember from their past
• Scotland
• Africa
• Scots Language
• The colour blue
• The cinema